New best-friends-forever SpaceClaim and Bricsys are joining forces in a SolidWorks/Cadopia-like arrangement.
In SolidWorks, the DWG editor is was a standalone version of IntelliCAD provided by Cadopia, and rebranded as DWGeditor -- one of the names over which Autodesk is having a temper tantrum.
Announced informally earlier today by Bricsys ceo Eric de Keyser, his company now has a similar arrangement with SpaceClaim. For US$1,995, you get the software bundle. Europeans, as is so often the case, get hosed into paying 30% more -- e1,995.
The point is that you use Bricscad to tweak DWG drawings outside of SpaceClaim.
Was it just a coincidence that this announcement was made during the ITC conference? Brisys is one of the largest and most successful IntelliCAD developers, and so is conspicuous by its absence.
Ralph,
Unless I am mistaken, DWGeditor is no longer IntelliCAD from Cadopia. I believe starting with the 2008 release, DWGeditor is being maintained and enhanced by SolidWorks which is still of course their "flavor" of IntelliCAD.
Best Regards,
Ricky Jordan
Posted by: Ricky Jordan | Oct 31, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Ricky, you are not mistaken. SolidWorks is also sending back some code to the ITC. The 10 language translations that the ITC now has are thanks to SolidWorks.
Posted by: Deelip Menezes | Nov 01, 2008 at 07:37 PM
Thanks for updating me, Ricky!
I wonder why SolidWorks was not at last week's IntelliCAD conference?
Posted by: ralphg | Nov 02, 2008 at 02:57 AM